Home Visitation Programs Preventing Violence and Promoting Healthy Early Child Development
Başlık:
Home Visitation Programs Preventing Violence and Promoting Healthy Early Child Development
Yazar:
Roggman, Lori. editor.
ISBN:
9783319179841
Edisyon:
1st ed. 2016.
Fiziksel Niteleme:
XVI, 232 p. 20 illus. online resource.
İçindekiler:
Part 1. Introduction to Home Visiting and its Challenges -- 1. Introduction: Home Visitation as a Primary Prevention Tool for Violence; Alberto Concha-Eastman -- 2. The Four Challenges for Home Visitation: Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Intrafamilial Violence, and Mental Disorders; Maristela G. Monteiro -- Part 2. Home Visiting Programs and Practices: Research and Evaluation -- 3. Home Visiting to Enhance Child Development in the Context of Violence: Possibilities and Limitations; Jon Korfmacher -- 4. Developmental Parenting Home Visiting to Prevent Violence: Monitoring and Evaluating; Lori Roggman -- 5. Developing the Home Visiting Workforce; Nick Wechsler -- 6. Supporting the Paraprofessional Home Visitor; Jon Kofmarcher -- 7. Engagement and Retention in Home Visiting Child Abuse Prevention Programs; William M. McGuigan and Breanna Gassner -- 8. Addressing Psychosocial Risk Factors among Families Enrolled in Home Visiting: Issues and Opportunities; S. Darius Tandon -- 9. Considerations on the Implementation, Innovation, and Improvement of Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs; Mark S. Innocenti -- Part 3. Home Visiting Programs Outside the United States -- 10. Home Visitation Programs for Early Child Development: Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean; Nancy Cardia, Renato Alves, Aline Gomes and Alder Mourão -- 11. Home Visiting Interventions to Promote Values that Support School Success; Martha Julia García-Sellers -- 12. The Roving Caregivers Programme: A Caribbean Model; Susan Branker, Clive Murray and Horis Lynch -- 13. The Investment In Home Visit Programs in Rural Indigenous Communities as a Strategy to Grant a Good Start in Life for Young Children; J. Leonardo Yánez.
Özet:
This timely resource analyzes home visits as a primary intervention for at-risk families with infants and young children and details innovative programs for home service delivery. Focusing on family violence, mental illness, and alcohol and substance abuse as major challenges to child development, the book presents practical strategies for home visitors to address and prevent problems while fostering an improved environment for raising children. Contributors offer a realistic framework for planning, developing, and training an effective home visitation workforce and tailoring interventions to fit individual family dynamics. And the book's international focus provides a variety of perspectives on evidence-based programs that support families raising children in distressed neighborhoods. Among the featured topics: Home visitation as a primary prevention tool for violence. Developmental parenting home visiting to prevent violence. Supporting the paraprofessional home visitor. Engagement and retention in home visiting child abuse prevention programs. Addressing psychosocial risk factors among families in home visiting programs. Home visitation programs in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Home Visitation Programs: Preventing Violence and Promoting Healthy Early Child Development is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, and professionals in child and school psychology, social work, educational policy, family advocacy, and public health.
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Elektronik Erişim:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17984-1